Jammu, December 8
A policeman committed suicide by shooting himself after allegedly killing his colleague with an AK-47 rifle in Udhampur district of Jammu and Kashmir. Officials said that these two policemen were going to the Subsidiary Training Center (STC) at Talwara in Reasi district of Jammu from Sopore in North Kashmir along with another colleague. He said that at around 6.30 in the morning, bullet-riddled bodies of police personnel were found inside the police van near Kali Mata Mandir.
Officials said that the head constable shot at the driver of the vehicle after an argument over something and then committed suicide. He said that a selection grade constable in the vehicle escaped safely and he is being interrogated. Udhampur Senior Superintendent of Police Amod Ashok Nagpure said that the accused used an AK 47 rifle to fire. “They were residents of Kashmir and were posted in Sopore,” the official said, citing preliminary information. -News-Patiala